Filling Institutional Repositories: Practical strategies

I better blog the following before I lose track of it: Main Articles: ‘Filling Institutional Repositories: Practical strategies from the DAEDALUS Project’, Ariadne Issue 39. I sat ...

Google Print Goes Live

Google Print gets its start today with a live index of works already in the public domain. Current legal undertakings of course put a bit of a damper on the launch, but nevertheless, ...

CAS Database Information for Handhelds

Nice. Chemical Abstracts Services (CAS) dips their toes into the world of cell phones and handhelds… There is even reference to SciFinder Mobile (well…”CAS Mobile” available ...

Bibliographic Life Cycle Management

Library Groupware for Bibliographic Lifecycle Management by Dan Chudnov, Yale’s Center For Medical Informatics. If you work in a library, and you are at all interested in the IT side ...

More links than a Ukrainian sausage factory

Yes, it has been one of those days when laughter has kept the ship afloat. Although everyone has heaps of work piling up around them, it’s a pleasure to be around people who can still ...

Diggin’ Digg

I’m sure many of you are as enthralled with Digg as I am. I had heard some reports that Digg was now topping Slashdot in terms of readership (not sure if thats actually the case yet ...

Reference Questions in the Library of the Future

This article from the Chronicle of Higher Ed. covers a shotgun blast of trends observed at academic library reference desks. There aren’t any secrets revealed in the text, although ...

Mashup services: More potato than meets the eye

The idea of service “mashups” really resonates with me. We’ve all seen some pretty wild and incredible examples of what happens when creative people meld different services together. Something ...

Yahoo! 360?

As I browse the features of Yahoo’s upcoming Yahoo! 360 Beta project, I wonder how long it will be until university portals, library websites, and other community gateways begin to ...

Weigh-in: Yahoo! or Google

It wasn’t until reading The Guardian’s “Second Sight” by Ben Hammersley that I realized that Yahoo! had launched its own version of Google labs. This of course led me to next.yahoo.com ...